Can I carry seeds to Australia?
Most seeds imported into Australia need a phytosanitary certificate issued by the exporting country’s National Plant Protection Organisation. Check BICON if this is required for your seeds and if there are any additional declarations or treatments that must be listed on the phytosanitary certificate. Imported seeds have the potential to introduce exotic pests and diseases into Australia. These can result in major impacts, including: damaging Australia’s trade and export markets.
What cannot be brought to Australia?
Biosecurity (plant products, animal materials and food) You cannot bring fresh fruit and vegetables, meat, poultry, pork, eggs, dairy products, live plants or seeds to Australia. These products could introduce serious pests and diseases into Australia, devastating our unique environment. More than 80% of our plants, mammals, reptiles and frogs are unique to Australia and are found nowhere else in the world. Some of our Australian animals are very well known like kangaroos, dingos, wallabies and wombats and of course the koala, platypus and echidna.